The reserve bank governor saying unemployment has to increase otherwise inflation caused by the indiscriminate bombing of Iran that Labor supports will be bad even though rate rises will do sweet fuck all to stop what’s causing the inflation

yesterday, the Australian people funded a forum for an Israeli migrant to bitch and moan about antisemitism in Australia and declare she plans to return to Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Incredible chart from this report, especially the lower graph: solar, displaced by batteries into the evening peak, absolutely destroys the electricity spot price peak. Renewables winning so hard.

This is catastrophic and absurd, but what else can we possibly expect when the project of protecting life and future generation from climate impacts has been actively discarded, including by organisations that have the word "climate" in their name? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

you should be able to punch a book and obtain its wisdom

"... what the ROV SuBastian revealed is not just a curiosity. It is a new dimension of Earth’s biosphere - invisible, deep, and surprisingly rich in life." Every reason on the planet to ban deep sea mining. The destruction of these unique ecosystems is sickening. Their intrinsic value is the value.

Who is this "we" of whom you speak, governor? You and other higher net worth individuals are doing just fine, regardless of Trump-Netanyahu wars and interest rate rises. #inequality #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

there were entire comedy skits on Khamas Khamas Khamas. The strategy was so conspicuous, so obvious. Now mainstream outlets are more diminished and cowed and you can see decontextualised ahistoric 7 Oct frames crystallising into future revisionist “first editions of history” in real time.

remember when mainstream outlets were reporting the horrendous daily slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza by Israelis, the targeted bombing by Israel of hospitals and schools and mosques and ambulances and churches and universities so every right of reply was Khamas. Why are we going back to that.

this feels like watching a rapid historical revisionism machine in real time. Where did the pepper spray come from? Who threw the objects? What were the protestors at this “protest” protesting against? Look at it.

In 942 days Israel has killed 363 journalists across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and Syria. That’s roughly one journalist killed every three days across 5 countries. stopmurderingjournalists.com

The economic equivalent of cutting off your leg to save you from the risk of future sprains. Diabolical. Admits there is nothing this rate raise will do to stop inflation, but doing it anyway just in case there is increased spending in the future. But it's fine for businesses to increase prices.

Australia's inflation problem is rich people spending too much, poorer people spending just enough not to starve or be homeless RBA Solution: Give rich people more money to spend through savings rate increases. And for the poor? More homelessness, more starvation. #auspol

I hadn't thought of it this way before. Gotta remember this.

“Deputy Commissioner Rose, the delegated decision maker who decided not to investigate the Robodebt Six, has a diploma of hotel management as her highest academic qualification”

🧵. Apparently when you have a massive public policy failure like #robodebt to investigate, the last thing needed is anyone with relevant qualifications. That this is not a front page national scandal speaks to the cozy consensus in Australia's political and media establishment. #NACC #auspol

Who's shocked? I am certainly not. We have people living in shopping trolleys in regional SA within meters of holiday/investment homes sitting empty. People moving into tents because they don't EARN 500 bucks p/w so cant pay that for rent #AlboDoesntGiveAFuck #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

This is indeed crucial reading. I wish everyone in Australia (and indeed elsewhere, in places where protest against Zionist genocide is excoriated) would read it and think hard about what it's saying.

Nursing placement student camping because they can’t get accommodation. Duty of care for student placement accom, NSW Health? Your policy directive doesn’t mention it even once

It is so shocking that the only option for many people who can no longer afford rent and cannot get help from friends or family is to live in a fucking TENT. No bathroom, no kitchen, no safety, no security, no real protection from bad weather and no public sympathy. Fucking disgraceful.

Newborn dies in childbirth, mother is homeless and living on the side of a river bank. Australia, 2026 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

71% of Australians are in favour of a 25% tax on gas exports. Not sure why the govt is scared @skyelark.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Hmmm ... www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-bondi-...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

There’s an article in the Guardian today which I was interviewed for: I wrote about it here, giving a fuller account of how and why I won’t be working with UQP anymore. sakr.substack.com/p/leaving-uqp

222 years ago on this date, the first massacre was committed against Aboriginal people in Tasmania. The occupational settlement by white British nationals was one day old. About 300 Aboriginal people from the Big River and Oyster Bay tribes had gathered for a kangaroo drive. Upon being sighted by

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Still, it didn't work, because the salmon are confined in a filthy stew of their own waste products that not a river or ocean can wash away.

pro-inherited wealth framing in white media was never more mask-off than the campaign for franking boomer handouts but this proposal to pull up the ladder will be running a close second.

um, no. If he “grandfathers” - the clue is in the word - public subsidies for landlords, that will “favour” X and boomer voters <and> lock Z and millennial voters out of the same perks, forever.

New from @omarsakr.bsky.social "Here’s what I wrote in response, and sent roughly 50mins after receiving the email: The term “Zionist entity” refers directly to the state of Israel - in no way, shape, or form could it be misconstrued as meaning “all Jewish people”."

A special fuck you to Dymocks as well, who have been instrumental in this farce. Pulling stock and refusing to sell books featuring an illustrator because he wrote a blog that, at worst, was insensitive. But don’t worry, you can still buy pedophile Cardinal George Pell’s books from them

Taxpayers get the risk and costs of investments and fossil fuel corporations get the profits. The business model protected by #auspol

UQP’s moves to censor and intimidate pro-Palestinian voices were much broader than Bila

Marion Stokes was an American TV producer, civil rights demonstrator, activist & librarian. She was known for recording & archiving over 330,000 hours of television news footage from 1977 until her death in 2012. Makes a compelling case for guerrilla archiving. Don’t let them rewrite history!

Richard Dawkins right now

The cost of legal fees for the Jewish Council of Australia to attend the Royal Commission is going to dwarf their 2025 budget. Donate here: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/urgent-royal...

heya western Sydney folks, numbers are low for this film screening next Saturday at Windsor please come along if you can 🇵🇸 www.stickytickets.com.au/3qqjy9/until...

Start with banning all #Wankpanzer imports and then a buy-back scheme for those already on the road. That's it. #auspol #RoadSafety www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

It’s not the time for a climate policy that actually reduces emissions, or legislation or $ to protect the environment, or for a NACC that finds corruption, or for whistleblower reforms. It’s the time to make FOI harder, and prevent free speech about Gaza, and to back Trump and Israel’s war crimes.

But not yet. Now’s not the time. Now’s not the time to raise the rate or support social housing. It’s the time to back the fossil fuel industry, cut the NDIS and legal aid, and spend more on missiles and submarines.

🚨Three months after police were filmed brutalising anti-Herzog protestors not one has faced any action. Yet NSW Police have charged at least 26 people. Including a woman who threw a water bottle, whose home was raided by 8 police in tactical gear... theklaxon.com.au/s3ol

Difficult to overstate just how far off-the-rails Australia is right now. 50% of deadly cigarettes and 90% of safer nicotine vapes now controlled and sold by violent drug gangs. Multi-billion dollar illicit market. Turf wars (nearly 300 fire bombings). Adult smoking and teen vaping increasing.

American History 💥

There's a big data centre planned in the bushland next to where I grew up in Sydney. Not small either: a 170 megawatt facility that'll require the demolition of 300 mature trees, many hundreds of years old www.instagram.com/reel/DNxM_K0...

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The interim Bondi report is a massive slap down for Jillian Segal. Not only does Commissioner Bell not blame protesters, she completely ignores Segal’s divisive recommendations & identifies Israel and the US as drivers of antisemitic attacks. Segal must resign. #auspol